Top Sheets

Top and bottom here and a longer spell between changing duvet covers. No top sheet on spare beds though as they aren't in use as often. Mind you, there are three king size and one double duvet in the ironing basket!

Since we changed to twin beds I have gone back to sheets and blankets and find it far more comfortable. DH still has a duvet which spins round so many times in the night it's a wonder he can untangle himself from it in the morning (hence twin beds!). If I get too hot in the night I can just peel off one layer at the time.

When we stay in hotels I always take the duvet out of the cover and sleep with just the cover. I find duvets stifling.

Bottom only, seems really strange to duplicate something, a duvet cover is easy enough to wash why wash two I haven't used a top sheet since I ve used a duvet which is probably 45 plus years

I hate having a top sheet under a duvet, there's something really uncomfortable about it. My sister in law puts them on her guest beds, ( not on her own I've noticed) and to my shame I've pulled mine out to sleep then remade the bed so she didn't know! Means she laundered an unused sheet and the next guest gets the same duvet covet!

I also use top and bottom sheets, like everyone else find duvet cover lasts longer between washing. But my sheets from Dunelm, matching available in all colours

Same here Watermeadow - top and bottom sheet and I only ever change the bottom sheet, both are flat sheets. Duvet cover doesn't need washing so often and DH changes our bed as it's a 6 foot - he's very good at the hospital corners, well that's my excuse!

Top and bottom sheet, with top sheet only tucked in at the bottom. This way if OH pinches the duvet you still have something covering you haha

A duvet is not an eiderdown or a quilt. It is supposed to mould itself to you not sit on top of a sheet. We have a fitted sheet on the bottom and duvet on the top. Lovely and warm. Both are washed regularly along with the pillow cases.

As I grew up my mother used to do top sheet to the bottom and a clean top sheet every week.
I did this until duvets became popular as well as fitted bottom sheets. I now have a fitted bottom sheet and flat top sheet as I see no reason to keep changing the duvet cover. Have never managed to easily change the duvet easily.

Top and bottom Egyptian cotton sheets washed and ironed each week and duvet cover changed every month. As king size duvet covers are also 100% cotton i could not face ironing these every week. Have two duvets, winter and summer weight and the top sheet gives a third option when it is really hot which happens in our part of France.

I can't get the duvet cover on ! No problem taking it off and washing and ironing , but I end up hot and bothered and the cover needing ironed again , so I use a top sheet

I'm old fashioned, I use a top and bottom sheet with a few patchwork quilts instead of a duvet. If I get too hot I throw a few off.

I change my duvets from winter to summer - 10.5 tog in winter and 4.5 tog in summer.

Top and bottom for me usually only have sheet over me some of the night . Silly question but if pillow cases match quilt cover don't they fade quicker than cover because they have to be washed same time as sheets if you leave cover longer hope this makes sense

Have just been staying at my mum's for a few days and know why I no longer use a top sheet with duvet at home, as it's ended up in a tangle at the bottom of the bed every night here!

I used to use fitted bottom sheets until on holiday we were given a huge cotton thinly padded sheet to cover our bed completely and sleep on about 1 cm thick. Now we use these instead of a bottom sheet. They are actually more comfortable. We do not have a top sheet just a duvet however in summer when it is hot we use another cotton padded bottom sheet as a cover. I just have 6 of these padded cotton very thin sheets.

We use top & bottom sheets with blankets and a thin quilt. We don't like duvets as they are invariably too hot for us. It's so easy to keep the right heat by using more or less blankets as the temperature changes. We often take a sheet and the quilt away with us as well as our own top pillows :-)

Newnanny, they sound lovely. Where did you get them please?

Parklife1 mentions ironing - I have never ironed fitted bottom sheets nor duvet covers! Don't have a top sheet although my mother did.

Have a bottom sheet and duvet on our bed. Gave up sheets and blankets years ago.

Just bottom sheet for me. I do have a problem though Queen or 4ft bed size. Almost impossible to get bedding for. Anyone know of anywhere please.

I HATE duvets. DH steals them and I can barely cover my feet if I'm lucky! - that is the situation when we sleep "elsewhere".
At home, I have white sheets, top and bottom, two blankets and a crochet bedspread which serves as a blanket. That way both DH and I can cope with our hot flushes [he is on hormones for his prostate cancer]
So, JaneFW you are absolutely not alone.

Marieeliz if you google "4 foot bed sheets", lots of stockists come up. Hope you find what you are looking for!

We have a super king bed and we used to fight over how much quilt we had. I bought two single quilts so we have one each. We can wrap up like a cocoon and both are happy. Easier to change covers as well.

I agree Yorkshiregel that duvets are not like a quilt and you mould them around you which is not possible if you have a top sheet. Personally I'm not keen on using a top sheet to cut down on washing duvet covers as you inevitably come into contact with the duvet cover whilst sleeping, and I wouldn't want to use top sheets with duvets for visitors as they may think I haven't washed duvet cover!